Library Book Club - Evvie Drake Starts Over

In-Person Room C, only register if this is your first time attending this bookclub. 

Open for all adults to join at anytime. We meet and discuss a different book each month on the last Thursday of the month. This month's book will be Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holme.

If you have any questions or if you need a copy of the book to borrow, please contact bethanie@mfplibrary.org to reserve one of our limited copies.

Summary: In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former major-league pitcher and Andy's childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the "yips": he can't throw straight anymore, and he can't figure out why. An invitation from Andy to stay in Maine for a few months seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button. When Dean moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie's house, the two make a deal: Dean won't ask about Evvie's late husband, and Evvie won't ask about Dean's baseball career. Rules, though, have a funny way of being broken--and what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more. But before they can find out what might lie ahead, they'll have to wrestle a few demons: the bonds they've broken, the plans they've changed, and the secrets they've kept. They'll need a lot of help, but in life, as in baseball, there's always a chance--right up until the last out.